Add licensing guidelines

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Harendra Kumar 2021-01-01 14:13:35 +05:30
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@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ Here is a quick checklist for a PR, for details please see the next section:
* Tutorial module, [README](README.md), and [guides](docs) are updated if
necessary.
* [Changelog](Changelog.md) is updated if needed
* The code conforms to the license, it is not stolen, credit is given,
copyright notices are retained, original license is included if needed.
### Structuring Pull Requests
@ -170,6 +172,14 @@ of the library please indicate that in the `Changelog` as `Breaking Changes`
and also write short notes regarding what the programmers need to do to adapt
their existing code to the new change.
### Licensing
If you have copied code from elsewhere you need to conform to the
licensing terms of the original code. Usually you would need to add a
copyright notice in the source header, and include the license of the
original code as per the terms of the license. If the code you are
copying does not have an associated license please do not use it.
## Developer documentation
To build haddock documentation for all modules, including the ones not exposed